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Ran Blake Film Noir at MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center

Courtesy of Nameless Sound | Posted on November 26, 2018

Where

MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center
3400 Main Street
Houston, TX
Map
713-325-5370

Ran Blake Film Noir at MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center

When

Fri, January 11, 2019
8:00 pm

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Musicians

Ran Blake
piano

About

Nameless Sound presents the regional premiere of Ran Blake Film Noir, featuring the renowned pianist performing original scores and improvisations to excerpts of classic film noir.

“Blake has a singular ability to make a single note speak volumes about the human condition, and to turn silence into a withering cry.” – Bill Shoemaker, Jazz Times

Deeply introspective, often starkly expressed and sometimes beautifully austere, Ran Blake possesses one of the truly personal stylistic voices of modern jazz. It’s is a piano music that is unquestionably of the idiom. Yet it defies the easy linear histories that simplify jazz as a succession of heroic musical innovations, and that position artists on a chronology of what is supposedly avant-garde. ...

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